After reading
Buffy Orpington's diary today, it dawned on me that although we are speaking with each other, we are often speaking PAST each other and not answering each others' needs.
What do you need? Is it a job or an employee? Is it a ride or a car? Is it volunteer labor or a volunteer slot that needs to be filled?
Let's get down to raising the tide, make the connections, draw the lines between the dots. And let's do it NOW, because many of us can't afford to await. We need each other right NOW. More on the flip.
First, let me say that this is an experiment for the moment; if it works, I'll try to put up a diary every day to help make connections.
Second, there should be a clear guideline to help match resources and opportunities.
1) Title should begin with 2-letter state ID, like VT for Vermont;
2) Follow with nature of post, either WANTED or OFFER;
3) End of title should be a very short descriptor.
Examples:
VT-WANTED: Volunteer phonebank
MI-OFFER: Graphics design service
IA-WANTED: Database Admin job opening
4) Detail the item in the body.
So? What do you think, can we find a way to help other progressives and ourselves right here in DailyKos? Sure, we could always try eBay and Craigslist, but here at DailyKos we can vet posters based on their diaries, comments, even their userid. If I needed somebody true blue Dem on a volunteer project, how would I be certain about their blueness?
If you want to comment about this idea, I'd love to hear from you; please consider a comment title FEEDBACK, though, so folks scanning can open or bypass as desired.
By the way, I don't even have a clue what tags to use on this diary...??